and the russian twitter bots and the russian fake facebook groups and russian fake online personas designed to look american. and that were designed to make our discourse more toxic and extreme and polarizing than it already is. and frankly, they were designed to boost donald trump's chances in the election and to weaken hillary clinton. there's been -- you've been hearing this story. details of the story for the past year. because there's been a bunk ch really good journalism about the russian efforts in the past year. but that was just one prong of the three-prong attack. they attacked the russian system and targeted the public. against the other two prongs of that attack, they're breaking into the dnc, breaking into the voter rolls. who would have thought that the first part of this three-prong attack to actually result in real criminal charges against russians wouldn't be hacking into the democratic party. wouldn't be hacking into state voter rolls. it would be this third prong, the stuff they did to try to influence public opinion online. i at least would not have predicted if there we

did play a role on friday thirteen russian nationals and three russian companies were indicted for meddling in the presidential campaign quotes russia says there is no evidence to support that but the u.s. special counsel robert muller says an attempt was made to sway public opinion and to promote republican donald trump's campaign ahead of his democratic rival hillary clinton did it have an impact on the election result trump has tweeted it did not we'll find out what i guess think in a moment but first rose jordan with this report. the munich security conference often focuses on weapons of mass destruction regional war and the threat from rogue nations and groups but at this year's meeting the conflict is between russia and the us which is now and died thirteen russian citizens for allegedly interfering in the two thousand and sixteen presidential race the russian foreign minister sergey lavrov called the indictments irrelevant. so until we hear the facts everything else is just blather the indictment says otherwise the defendants allegedly were promoting donald trump's candidacy and unde

the entities are russians.esumably they are located in russia, what is the jurisdiction of the united states? they're not going to exit back in the states, are they? seek to have these people extradited and seek cooperation of other governments, but russia is unlikely to particularly cooperate. they can also seek other intra-paul andh other international agreements to make life difficult for these individuals. but this indictment tax these individuals and is not good for them, they could live out their lives in russia as long as the government can protect them, but this really does restrict their travel and their types of business and personal interactions. i think that when you look at this objectively, what you have is confirmation of what most people have already accepted. the russians had a coordinated effort to hack the election and also states that effort was directed against hillary clinton in favor of donald trump. in terms of confirmation, that is significant. people need to keep in mind that there is

>> those were legitimate. >> those were russians. >> they were not russians.o with the russians. come on give me a break. >> i have nothing with the russians. >> apparently you did. >> no. >> even though the indictment says the russians organized the rally, ms. goldfarb says she never communicated with any russians and no one at any of her events were anything about americans for trump. the russians pretending to be trump organizers reached out to this man in florida, paying him to build a cage holding a an actress depicting clinton in prison uniform. miller tweeted this is the cage the russians paid for. by phone he says he learned about his unwitting involvement from the fbi. and now believes it was russians who called him on the phone, paid in between $500, to $1,000 to build the cage. >> they have the beautiful website, very supportive of the candidate. there was nothing -- nothing at all to lend to you think that it's anything other than people trying to support a candidate. >> the russians weren't just recruiting unwitting trump supporters. as cnn report

some russians can avoid the u.s.on or any other international airports and hope it goes away. but mueller could be talking to people closer to the u.s. or in the u.s., if those people are covering their tracks, now they're on notice because this indictment of foreigners is not coming in a vacuum. it comes with a former trump aide rick gates looking to join michael flynn to cooperate with mueller, it comes after robert mueller took paul manafort back to court for getting busted for trying to talk to a ukrainian about a new pr campaign, as mueller releases the guilty plea of this mysterious californian for fraud connected to the case and as we emphasized in our reporting, mueller obtained that ple two weeks ago. only he knows all the reasons why he's releasing it today. bob mueller is releasing all of this to show a timeline. from what russians did early on researching how to do this in 2014 to escalating in june, 2016 and then of course, it was july 2016 the next month when trump said this -- >> russia, if you're list

it's russians. it's been tweeting at us and trying to influence us with thousands and thousands of followers for years. >> well, one of the issues that came through to me at the justice department is that the deputy attorney general made the point of operations in the future. you know from earlier this week, all of the intelligence officials made the case there's evidence that the russians are targeting the mid-term elections. what we heard today is not in a vacuum. but the russians played a long game, they are chess players and they also see this as an inexpensive way to create chaos and discord within the system and undermine the democratic process. i asked the deputy attorney general what the chances were of these russians being brought to the united states for prosecution. here it's his answer. >> no communication with the russians about this. we'll follow the ordinary process of seeking cooperation and extradition. >> in my experience, an indictment like this has two functions. it puts out in t

it came in a federal grand jury indictment of 13 russians and three russian companies. according to the mueller indictment, at defendants' operations included supporting the presidential campaign of then candidate donald j. trump and disparaging hillary clinton. among the charges, conspiracy to defraud the united states, the indictment provides a comprehensive blueprint of that conspiracy, detailing exactly how the russians conducted information warfare against this country starting back in 2014. those methods were described today by the justice department official who oversees the special counsel's probe. deputy attorney general rod rosenstein. >> the defendants allegedly kunged what they called information warfare against the united states. they used stolen or fictitious american identities, fraudulent bank accounts and false identification documents. the defendants posed as politically and socially active americans. advocating for and against particular candidates. they established social media pages and groups to communicate with unwitting americans. the russians al

today the special counsel robert mueller indicted 13 russian nationals and three russian companies forngaging in information warfare on the united states and interfering on the election. this indictment shows this was widespread in terms of a russian effort and dates back to 2014 during the obama administration and meant to sow discord in the political system. the obama administration has a lot to explain about why they did not act. >>> also breaking tonight, the department of justice is saying that the russian interference did not affect the outcome of the election and no americans were wittingly involved. there is nothing in the indictment about trump/russia collusion which continues to prove that the media has been fly-out lying to you. and the demoted department of justice official, bruce orr did not disclose to ethics officials that his wife was being paid by fusion gps, the company that paid for a phony dossier filled with russian government lies. and byron york is asking why james comey's memos about his conversations with president trump being kept secret. here's a hint. trey g

today the special counsel robert mueller indicted 13 russian nationals and three russian companies for engaging in information warfare on the united states and interfering on the election. this indictment shows this was widespread in terms of a russian effort and dates back to 2014 during the obama administration and meant to sow discord in the political system. the obama administration has a lot to explain about why they did not act. >>> also breaking tonight, the department of justice is saying that the russian interference did not affect the outcome of the election and no americans were wittingly involved. there is nothing in the indictment about trump/russia collusion which continues to prove that the media has been fly-out lying to you. and the demoted department of justice official, bruce orr did not disclose to ethics officials that his wife was being paid by fusion gps, the company that paid for a phony dossier filled with russian government lies. and byron york is asking why james comey's memos about his conversations with president trump being kept secret. here's a hint. trey

take a look. >> there has been no collusion between the trump campaign and russians or trump and russians. no collusion. but bottom line, they also there is no collusion. there is no collusion.e there was absolutely no collusion. everybody knows it.us >> let's put it this way. there is absolutely no collusion. that has been proven. there is absolutely no collusion. i didn't make a phone call to russia.. i have nothing to do with russia. everybody knows that. what has been shown is no collusion. no collusion. there is beenn absolutely -- there's been absolutely no collusion. >> sean: s the president also tweeted this weekend... then he added... think about it. the president is right. for over a year, russia has in fact been laughing at us. democrats, the media have been playing right into putin's hands by creating chaos and political discord, just what they wanted. frankly it's working better than russia could have dreamed of. that is what this russian effort was about, causing chaos, political unrest in this country. the "washington examiner"'s byron york will join us later tonight. he is

of 13 russians and three russian companies for interfering in the 2016 u.s.lection. one of the russians indicted last week by the justice department, russian billionaire yevgeny prigozhin, who owns the internet research agency, the russian troll farm that was involved in the russian election meddling, his nickname is reportedly putin's cook. he is also believed to control the russian mercenaries who attacked u.s. troops and their allies in syria this month. i asked masha to talk more about him. the russian state in the russian government is a mafia state comes so the easiest way to think about it is it is a klan with the patriarch in the middle who nominally owns what does not make a whole lot of difference because -- so they created this troll farm. someone -- it had to be a private company. someone has to nominally own it. there's very little doubt it is getting funding from the kremlin. so it is in fact the klan. we do know a fair not about how that company functioned. again, there is been great russian reporting on what they were doing. a lot of that repo

that's in american interest to not see any russians die in terrorist attacks as it is in russian interest to prevent any terrorist attacks in the united states or elsewhere in the world so i don't think there's any dispute on that in congress and i think maybe some of the posturing is frankly political as opposed to substantive. welcome back to worlds apart with tony cabin a former diplomat in russia and the author of a book called return to moscow. mr cameron what. we started discussing your crane before the break the break and there was definitely a genuine aliment in that uprising people wanted change positive change they wanted to day and to to corruption the they wanted a more fair more representative a more transparent government and all of those. calls you can hear in russia these days changes also have pretty popular world in this country but i think russia's relationship with changes is interesting because as the former prime minister of the imperial russia once said everything changes in russian ten years and nothing in two hundred i wonder what are some of those changes the nor

straight ahead. ♪ >> sean: in the mueller indictment of the 13 russian nationals, the russian trollsed approach trump and anti-trump rallies in new york city, deciding to take a look how fake news, the network cnn and msnbc covered up the anti-trump protest in new york city that day coming here is they cover this. >> people have said what is the point, you have all of these different groups coming together. but the point is that they know they cannot change the results of the election, but what they say is that they want to come together and show america that love is love. >> i can tell you collectively what everyone has been agreeing on is how big of a protest this is. >> the crowds have not slowed down, following since 12:30 this afternoon. people out here are chanting and banging the drum, they do not want donald trump to be their next president. >> sean: we have not been able to independently confirm that to that rally was literally set up by the russian trolls, but it's kind of it's funny that the mainstream media was playing right into vladimir putin's hands. the president twee

gorka, they paid the russians to be involved in this, short of the trolls, and why wouldn't the russiansnk that they could get away with it? vladimir putin put his operatives in america and got our uranium, why would they think anything else? >> there are categories from the cold war, michael moore was a useful idiot when he shows up at the administration against donald trump that is organized by the russians, but we are not talking about useful idiots when it comes to the fisa courts surveillance and the steele dossier. let's use a phrase from the military, hillary clinton, herer lawyers and the dnc were forced multipliers for russian propaganda that attacked a presidential candidate during an election. they were not unwitting, they actually paid for it. more than $12 million of russian propaganda paid for and funneled into an illegal surveillance warrant against the u.s. citizen. >> sean: i have to roll, you guys have been doing amazing work. keep up the good work. we need your voice every night, i wish that there was the oneee big moment that you cross the finish line, this is going t

to conceal russian origins. when it was over, they took steps to erase their digital trail, one defendant writing in an e-mail to a family member, we had a slight crisis here at work. the fbi busted our activity. not a joke. so i got preoccupied with covering tracks together with the colleagues. further wrote, i created all these pictures and posts. the americans believed it was written by their people. now, the indictment today only concerns russian information operations. it does not even touch on the criminal theft of documents from the dnc or the clinton campaign or the question of potential collusion with the trump campaign which almost certainly means there are more shoes left to drop. the president of course, already declared victory today tweeting russia started their anti-u.s. campaign in 2014 long of i announced i would run for president. the results of the election were not impacted. the trump campaign did nothing wrong, no collusion. mueller makes no determination whether the russian efforts affected

chief robert mueller who's investigating that claim last week indicted thirteen russians and three russian organizations but did the campaign participate in the election meddling and should the u.s. really be lecturing russia on undermining foreign elections given how many governments the cia has undermined and even toppled this week's headline from critic former top spy and twenty eight year veteran of the cia and its clandestine service john cypher. john thanks for joining me on up front the latest indictments from the special counsel's investigation into the twenty sixteen presidential election in the u.s. accuses russian nationals and organizations of having allegedly meddled in the election are you of the view as many people seem to be in the u.s. these days that the trump campaign colluded with russia and was involved in that meddling were interesting my view is this this indictment sets a foundation upon which the legal community the justice department and the and the more investigation will then look for coconspirators. that were tied with this. you know the the russians when they

'cause just listen to how he trolled the u.s. - [speaking russian] - [speaking russian] [laughter] -rump is an open person. that's exactly what we're worried about. remember the last time he spoke to the russians? he accidentally spilled israeli state secrets. that's what he does. like, right now, the best we can hope for is that trump is so full of bs that he's too unreliable to be spied on, you know? because we know he'll say anything to make himself look cool. you know, putin will be like, so, donald, how many nuclear submarines do you have now? and trump will be like, let me tell you, vlad, we have literally millions of submarines. no, no, donald. no. no, donald, no. that can't be right number. i've heard we might have a submarine under this very dinner party right now. unbelievable. i'm starting to miss hillary, oh, my god, this-- [traditional russian music] for more on the russian effort to influence american discourse, we're joined now by our senior american correspondent, michael kosta, everybody. [cheers and applause] michael-- michael, as an american, are you worried that r

putin and the russian oligarchs. it's imperative that the mueller investigation be allowed to go forward without obstruction from the trump administration or congress. that was a presidential reaction to what was revealed today. that reaction by bernie sanders. jill stein has not issued a statement about the indictment. today's indictment is the first set of charges brought by the special prosecutor specifically for interfering in the 2016 presidential election, which was the first specified jurisdiction of the special prosecutor's investigation. deputy attorney general rod rosenstein, who oversees robert mueller's investigation, announced the indictment. >> the defendants allegedly conducted what they called information warfare against the united states. they used stolen or if i can tick shous american identities, fraudulent bank accounts. the defendants posed as politically and socially active americans. advocating for and against particular can'ts. they established social media pages and groups to communicate with

the indictment charges 13 russian nationals and three russian companies for committing federal crimes while seeking to interfere in the united states's political system including the 2016 presidential election. the defendants allegedly conduct what had they call information warfare against the united states. with the state goal of spreading distrust towards the candidates and the political system in general. caller: this is an example of what they were talking about all along that the main problem in merica is mostly race. as long as we got these racial problems in this country, we're always going to have people melding in our elections. it's a disgrace that we've been born these many years. i remember when i was in the first resurrection of the consciousness of black people and i remember the hardest thing for us to do would be to convince other people from across the water when i come back from vietnams the hard ething for us to do would be to convince international people -- this was when malcolm and martin was trying to do. now with facebook and social media, let me tell you somet

russians are responsible for those crimes. and now i think we want to know, did they work in partnership with any u.s. persons. also, the fact this occurred, these indictments are coming over a year after the election interference campaign shows how long it takes and the patience we must have to wait, to seek the evidence and wait for special counsel mueller to come back. also, i just ask the president, do you believe it now? because your department of justice has indicted russian individuals. and are we going to take this threat seriously? because i don't think they ever left our democracy. >> and this, when you see this, these indictments come out and you consider what we heard from the intelligence community before the senate intelligence committee earlier this week, i mean, fierce warnings coming from the head of our intel agencies about not only the meddling that russia had involved itself in in 2016, but looking towards this year, looking towards the midterm elections, looking towards the next presidential election, how

russians were behind it all. to pit americans against one another. >> do you swear to tell the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth? >> now capitol hill wants answers. >> the political ad was paid for by rubles. isn't that red flag? how could that happen? >> almost all of the propaganda found so far traces back to the internet research agency. investigators say it was financed by a company owned by this man, a russian oligarch, a wealthy businessman and part of putin's inner circle. >> they hired people that had a quote ta working in 12 hour shifts. >> there was an entire english language department specifically designed to insert messages, social media posts in the united states. they were required to watch house of cards to better understand american politics. >> in two weeks' time you will be heading to the ballot box to decide what kind of country you want to live in. >> the idea was to mas ka raid themselves as americans. >> they understood that black lives matter ads should be targeted to cities

this indictment names 13 russian individuals and three companies, not the russian government. what do you make of that? >> well, it's interesting because we know that while the russian government itself is not mentioned here, that some of the figures that are have very close ties to the kremlin. and it's interesting as well, we're showing some of the sound from h.r. mcmaster at the munich security conference. i also understand seg guy kislyak, the former russian ambassador to the united states, was pressed on a panel there about whether he was aware of any potential russian role in this conspiracy to interfere with our election campaign. he was, not surprisingly, nonresponsive to those questions. of course kislyak is a key role and one of the other figures that's caught the attention of the special counsel, michael flynn. those contacts flynn had with kislyak during the transportation team we know are something the mueller team has been looking at. while the kremlin is not specifically referenced in this indictment, we know the special counsel has their eye on them as well. >>

that's in american interest to not see any russians die in terrorist attacks as it is in russian interest to prevent any terrorist attacks in the united states or elsewhere in the world so i don't think there's any dispute on that in congress and i think maybe some of the posturing is frankly political as opposed to substantive. join me every thursday on the elec simon chill and i'll be speaking to guests of the world of politics school business i'm show business i'll see that. despite its title and history deceive us union i know has dominated international sport however this was not about the lives of those champions from the. right moment she was number there. will be involved with you or your brother this is for the lord your workers should still be reserved for your you were the first some of you to limp a team of one hundred fifty two minutes we did see each of us has concentration camp prisoners and frontline soldiers for sure but even that is good but there is corruption you get a much. bigger because you're working for him for being one for yourself or with all the wrong with you

announces sanctions against russians against four individual russian officers and three russian companies providing material support to those cyberoperations. 35 russian diplomats whom the administration said were intelligence operatives were given 72 hours to leave the country. two russian compounds are closed. >> and so in early september when i saw president putin in china, i felt that the most effective way to ensure that that didn't happen was to talk to him directly. and tell him to cut it out and there were going to be serious consequences if he didn't. and in fact we did not see further tampering of the election. >> now let's take a look at president trump's actions related to russia. in april of last year he orders a cruise missile attack against the russian backed syrian regime. it is the first direct attack by the u.s. military in the country's lengthy civil war. under president trump congress has taken arguably the most aggressive actions against the kremlin. it was acting on the intelligence presented during the obama administration. in august of 2017, congress overwhelmingly

that's in american interest to not see any russians die in terrorist attacks as it is in russian interest to prevent any terrorist attacks in the united states or elsewhere in the world so i don't think there's any dispute on that in congress and i think maybe some of the posturing is frankly political as opposed to substantive. in america a college degree requires a great deal. paying a decade's long debt. studying so hard it requires. going through humiliation to enter an elite society. and parching to dance sometimes quite literally. want other true colors of universities in the us. i think. i am. i. in the stories that shaped the week just gone with twenty eight hundred winter games kicked off in south korea russia. just hours before the opening ceremony as their appeals against a doping related ban were rejected. airstrikes by the us led coalition hit syrian pro-government forces reportedly killing nearly one hundred people the pentagon claims it was carried out to defend an american backed group. and british m.p.'s jet out to washington to haul the biggest social media firms over th

and who's not a russian. you know i want to. i. was . like. the problem is the fault of the. outdoors is that you of course. let's delve a little bit deeper into the issue no with mike riley coeditor of b s news mike you're always welcome to the program could have you there has been no official statement from twitter but from this from perhaps what you've seen in the past do you believe there is something going on here are they adopting a blanket ban on specific content. no i really doubt it the reason being is because the twitter has maybe three hundred three hundred thirty million active users and only three and a half thousand members of staff so it's really unlikely that those members of staff are going to go through possibly one hundred thousand twitter accounts and determine whether they are right wing or conservative accounts or whether they're bots or not so this is all being done by an algorithm and all of us see these things aren't perfect but it's reasonably straightforward certainly for human bein

and who's not a russian by. you know i don't want to you know. i don't know this and he goes. yeah like. the problem is. that you're a christian man chair a lawyer and political activist believes that the move goes against a free speech form like twitter facebook or instagram these are forms where people have the ability of expressing their freedom of speech and their opinions i think that that's the point of these social media sites so if they begin to censor people just because they're coming under pressure then you know what's going to come next i think that this country has been characterized as always for the protection of freedom of speech regardless of what you think and as long as the message that you're portraying is not racially offensive or sexually offensive and you know other ways possible then you can not censor the opinion of a person simply because they go against you or simply because you disagree with them staying with them meddling accusations in new york times article has listed the many case

or any russians did russian nationals or people who speak russian or people in the russian government but there is no evidence that any of this affected the election whatsoever isn't that fascinating and if it didn't affect the election what's the point of this. supposedly inc with russia has also landed the dutch foreign minister in trouble he's resigned after admitting he lied about a meeting with president putin in two thousand and six but in a flow of. them they don't. i mean is that we both want to. excuse. for you to use. an emotional resignation how old is old departure comes just a day before he was supposed to meet his russian counterpart here in moscow let's listen for a moment to the remarks that ultimately finished his career. because. fish in early two thousand and six i was about to meet putin's countryside house but i stopped at the back of a room or a meeting was being held but i could hear very well vladimir putin talking about a greater russia he said this included russia belarus ukraine and the baltic states and that kazakstan would also be nice to have but one of t

for dossier filled with russian and russian government lies and propaganda. hillary clinton and the dnc shelled out over $12 million to fund this salacious and unverified dossier used as the bulk of information to get a fisa warrant to spy on the trump campaign. the same dossier the republican memos found that the fbi used to lie in that fisa court to get that warrant to spy on a member of the trump campaign. the fbi, fusion gps, nobody verified what was in the dossier, to this day we haven't proven a thing in the dossier. we know that the bulk of that fisa application was made up of a political hit piece document put together by a former plitish spy, christopher steel, using russian government sources and some of hillary's best friend as sources. now, also breaking, a lot of developments tonight as it relates to the case of bruce and nellie orr. this hugs band and wife duo, we reported after bruce orr high-ranking justice department official passed on the anti-trump field dossier, he gave it to the fbi. it was his wife, nellie, working for fusion gps on the

not well accepted by the russians. the russian liberals came to power, they did not feel defeated, they did not feel that they were going to be taught by somebody. somebody will define their interest. if you want to be a democratic nation that was in your interest. you have to do that. even if you at that time feel it distasteful. very quickly to hear them talking about the piece -- very quickly.s one of my lessons to putin and whoever is president of the don't use the is word partnership when you don't mean it. partnership, then the agenda has to be defined by both , what is happening in the 1990's -- that is what the russians complained about. the agenda of was defined by the united states. when the russians were willing to cooperate on that agenda, it was a very successful cooperation. on nato expansion. be careful with the word partnership. also be careful with very close personal association and building up this partnership as the only person. three russia as a country that is trying to become democratic. isn when

four of the russians. five russians got killed this is what the russian foreign labor contractors so they have a concept that is going to see if the united states doesn't use a quarter and the contracts so that western media try to make out to it a huge river waging like something that wants to hide if anyone in syria should read it army or something like that things like that alex you know one of the things is that you know we keep tabs on this program is what's going on in ukraine and unfortunately i think we're going to be talking a lot about ukraine a year. you know looking at syria looking at ukraine it in its totality it looks like american policy is just pure spite you know it's they their regime change in in ukraine getting work out the way they want it because they lost crimea they have a frozen conflict against war and every once in a while when even the heart and then we have syria where they lost again it's not ok and you have been ok i mean. me i would call that mature foreign policy because i

gets you through the long russian winter but i suspect when you say russia in their struggle and contacts. the associations are probably not so positive are they. they can be quite negative unfortunately we have been fed a diet of cliches about russia. russia is still very much seen through a post soviet lens as the success the state to the soviet union and somehow or other images of go leg and stuff in the countries of extreme cold discomfort of rudeness and these are the kinds of things that unfortunately still linger on and you wrote the whole book to address some of those negative stereotypes and i think you have a very unusual take for a western or former western diplomat. when it comes to russia because. i think there's a lot of understanding there's also a lot of compassion in your book and i really appreciate that but i will want to ask you whether you ever felt that you are giving this country an easy pass i don't think i think that the majority of the content of my book deals with the sometimes very disagreeable parts of russia's history i've got a chapter on the leg museum i've

so far, the russians haven't given explanation as to why a russian oligarch close to vladimir putin wouldink millions into a trolling campaign against u.s. democracy and against the clinton campaign for any other reason, whether or not he had anything to do with the kremlin. as far as pamela's report was concerned, the president tweeting his anger towards the democrats, towards the media, but not towards the russians, the russians are returning the favor. there's a pattern in moscow criticizing the u.s., not criticizing president trump. wolf, i actually went past some of the things the top three people in russia said the past couple months. vladimir putin in december saying all of the charges dreamed up by trump's opponents in effort to discredit him. in january, sergei lavrov, foreign minister come out saying trump was forced into makes anti-american decisions by some of his political enemies. couple days ago, you have the prime minister coming out and saying the u.s. elite is using all this to settle political scores with president trump. as you can see, a lot of this goes both ways. on

put in is very russian. there's a thing inferiority complex about how the west doesn't take a seriously daisy s. as the kind of retarded little brother that they can just kick and insult all the time they had been a great power. that was on par with the us those calling the shots all over the world and now people don't even listen to them. not only was the west not listening to russia it was also moving closer and closer to russia with its bases in summer two thousand and twelve the syrian president bashar al assad an old ally of russia faced an uprising his opponents received weapons from europe and the us. there was no doubt in putin's mind that the west had ordered a regime change as it had done in two thousand and three in iraq and in libya where the deposed president won or gadhafi had just been killed. when vladimir putin got a hold of the video of khadafi being killed lynched in the streets. he watched that video on repeat he just watched over and over and over again. and apparently he did the same th

i don't go with the russians. >> that group was russian. >> i have nothing to do with the russians. >even though the indictment says the russians organized the rally, ms. goldfarb says she never communicated with any russians, and no one at any of her events were anything but americans for trump. the russians pretending to be trump organizers also reached out to harry miller in boynton beach, florida, paying him to build a cage large enough to hold an actress depicting clinton in prison uniform. he did just that. appearing at rallies. friday, miller, who now lives in pennsylvania, tweeted, "this is the cage the russians paid for." by phone he says he learned about his unwitting involvement from the fbi. now believes it was russians who called him on the phone, paid him between $500 to $1,000 to build his cage. >> how could you be embarrassed? they had that beautiful website. very supportive of the candidate. there was nothing, nothing at all, to lend you to think that it's anything other than people trying to support a candidate. >> reporter: the russians weren't just recruiting unwit

but the russians -- i don't know.hey photoshop photographs of the pope to make him look like he's saluting to a german nazi officer. >> you don't think the chinese are involved in this type of activity? they have an economy that dwarfs russia. i think it's important that we stop this russian stuff. but every time someone says russia, russia, russia, i say china, china, china. >> that's right. they are strategically a lot smarter. the russians basically are like the old fellow who lived next to the lincolns and their farm when they were a little bit. he used to say, i don't need much land, just what adjoins mine. that's russia. >> but they have an economy smaller than the size of france. come on. compared to china. china's eating our lunch on so many fronts. >> and it gives us some leverage. if we can work to get the price of oil down, we will create a very, very unhappy putin. >> but we don't want to push russia to china, though. that's the last thing we want. >> we just want to weaken them because we can deal with th

mandan in russian ok. well probably. later in the week we'll go back to a member of there's going to be more memos coming up but i want to talk about some diplomacy and optics mark the opening of the olympic games. who's the winner and who's the loser from an optics point if you go ahead peace peace the winner is the winner the site of the two koreas the north korean delegation entering south korea and marching together the end lympics under a unified unification flag with the other is what you're about there without the border this was incredible and there's one point person on scene who was extremely upset by this and had to give his protest against peace and that was the u.s. president mike pence. vice president i'm sorry. for doing so we could go to this interview ok mark knew from our own you know look like he refused to stand up for the for the host south korea because it was a joint unification team he refused to shake hands with any of the north koreans out of it's he had this look on his face and actually the th

today the special counsel robert mueller indicted 13 russian nationals and three russian companies forre on the united states and interfering on the election. this indictment shows this was widespread in terms of a russian effort and dates back to 2014 during the obama administration and meant

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can use this hour the united states indicts thirteen russian nationals. in america's twenty sixteen presidential election moscow points out the absurdity of the accusations. on a visit to ankara america's top diplomat attempts to improve worsening relations with. turkey the tensions grow in syria over washington support for the kurdish. terrorist. spirit is being embraced by competitors from around the world at the winter games in south korea with rivals helping each other around. specific russian athletes he offered me technical help he was willing to reach out and help me in such a desperate time shows that sport can bridge cultures it can bridge politics. international ok our breaking news story this hour the u.s. just indicted thirteen russian nationals over alleged meddling in america's two thousand and sixteen presidential election r.t. correspondent philip morgan joins us from new york. bringing us up to date the latest on this story. well we have an indictment now from the u.s. department of justice now it's thirty seven pages and if you read the

or with russian, to try to end the russian sanctions exactly what chip is accusing trump of wantingobserved. i think the american people are quite frankly getting tired of it. it's more than a year, they haven't been able to come up with any solid piece of evidence. there are still five open investigations, you've got senate intel, senate judiciary, house judiciary, house intel, the inspector general, and i really think the biggest event, if you will, in terms of releasing of documents and the perspective will be that inspector general report which i think would happen in the next 60 days. >> i have to ask you about the whole issues were guarding florida and there is an fbi issue, they did drop the ball, they did admit that they dropped the ball, and there are questions now as to whether all of their energy spent investigating russia detracted from their focus, what you think? >> you think first of all we should blame the shooter as the number one issue. it is disgusting and disappointing that the fbi didn't follow through not on one but two tips, but i also have questions for local